After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.
And the barriers of what humans are able to maintain and what “AI” is able to maintain are very, very far apart. And always will. There’s an information limit that we’re approaching fast.